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Monday, February 6, 2012

Jay Inslee unveils jobs plan: Building a New Economy for Washington Proposes Building a New Jobs Revolution in Clean Energy

Jay
Inslee unveils jobs plan:
Building a New Economy for Washington

Proposes
Building a New Jobs Revolution in Clean

Energy

Jobs
Tax Credit for Small Businesses & Innovation in Aerospaceand Information
Technology All Parts of Inslee's Plan to Build a New Economy

Seattle, WA -
Today Jay Inslee, the Democratic candidate for governor, proposed a series of
economic initiatives intended to create jobs for Washington State in a
cluster of growth-industries, including jump-starting a revolution in clean
energy jobs.

"These are the first steps we must take to create jobs and
build an economy that further strengthens the key industries of today while
also putting us at the forefront of the industries of tomorrow like clean
tech," said Inslee, who spoke first at Absolute Aviation in Spokane and
then at a MacDonald-Miller manufacturing site in Seattle.

"I know there is huge potential for new jobs, for all
workers, all across our state" said Inslee. "Throughout my life
I've held many jobs - I drove a bulldozer in Bellevue, painted houses in
Burien and represented Hanford workers - and I've lived on both sides of the
Cascades. I know we need a plan to grow the economy for everyone."

Inslee's jobs plan, Building a New Economy for Washington,
includes a series of proposals aimed at creating jobs for all types of
workers, growing small businesses and several of the state's current key
industries such as aerospace, agriculture, military, life sciences, and information
technology as well as strategies for making Washington a jobs leader in
emerging industries such as clean tech.

Inslee's plan includes both short- and long-term economic
development ideas for working directly with industry leaders to ensure a world-class
workforce by aggressively expanding STEM education, providing a Jobs Tax
Credit for small businesses, removing barriers to commercializing innovative
technologies, helping support research & development efforts for emerging
start-ups, and more.

"Jay has shown a level of leadership and expertise in the
clean tech industry that is necessary to help companies like ours become
global competitors," said Yale Wong, CEO of General Biodiesel.
"These kinds of proposals will help unlock private-sector investments
and demand for clean energy products."

Inslee has real expertise in the clean tech industry and even
wrote a book, Apollo's
Fire, about growing a clean energy economy that Bill Clinton
called a "field guide for our future."

"We live in a fast-moving, rapidly changing world,"
said Ed Lazowska, a leader in the computer sciences industry who joined
Inslee in Seattle and helped develop parts of the plan. "Having leaders
who understand how we innovate, create, and educate is hugely important to
our competitiveness."